Online Voting ― Not Only a Technical Challenge

摘要

This paper is about the challenge of online voting. First it illustrates why we should put effort into this subject, and it describes the security requirements which have to be achieved. Then it discusses an approach to achieve online voting step by step, and evaluates experiences gathered in pilot projects being conducted so far. Further on the German discussion on online voting is reflected, and it is emphasised that online voting is not at all only a technical challenge. More interdisciplinary research and a widespread public discussion is needed, which could be reached e.g. by a technology assessment. The last section gives a short prospect to e-democracy on the whole, and why online voting has to be embedded there.